Tag Archives: recycling

Business/Economics, International, U.S.

Global Paper Mill Shenanigans: Sudden shut downs! More fires!

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04 MAY 2023 (11:24-UTC-07 Tango 06) 14 Ordibehesht 1402/13 Shawwal 1444/15 Ding-Si 4721/04 май 2023 года

Incomplete list of links, and video reports, of the latest shenanigans affecting your paper products supply:

BANGLADESH: Azad paper mill goes up in flames;

UNITED STATES:

Iowa; Paper recycling mill in Tama suddenly shuts down after 1-hundred years, 85 jobs gone by June!

Mill shutdown will have domino affect;

Michigan; Cases of rare/deadly fungal disease, first found in local paper mill, continues to spread!

North Carolina; Pactiv Eevergreen shutting down their paper mill in Canton, by June!

South Carolina; West Rock shuts down paper mill, 5-hundred jobs killed by the end of August!

West Rock blames costs of operation for shutdown, mill has long history of changing owners;

Washington; Chemical reaction causes hazmat fire at Inland Empire Paper Company!

Fire Chief explains how hazardous the fire was, fire fighters had to be decontaminated;

Global Paper/Lumber Mill Shenanigans: MORE FIRES! THE FUNGUS SPREADS! TOXIC SULFUR! ELON MUSK?

U.S. Paper Mill Shenanigans: MORE MYSTERY FIRES, FUNGAL DISEASES, EMPLOYEE DEATHS AND SHUTDOWNS!

Business/Economics, International, U.S.

Global Paper/Wood Mill Shenanigans: More Fires! The Fungus Spreads! Toxic Sulfur! Elon Musk?

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29 April 2023 (01:32-UTC-07 Tango 06) 09 Ordibehesht 1402/08 Shawwal 1444/10 Bing-Chen(3rd month) 4721/29 апреля 2023 года

Incomplete list of links, and video reports, of the latest shenanigans affecting your paper/lumber products supply:

CANADA: Financially struggling paper/pulp mill in British Columbia (BC) wants to be used as an electricity power station instead!

Elon Musk worked as a tree feller, and then as a boiler cleaner in a mill, in BC?

SWEDEN: Millions being invested into the Braviken Paper Mill, supposedly to meet skyrocketing demand!

However, another mill just laid off 24 people, blaming it on costs of operation, falling prices (deflation) and a weak U.S. dollar (USD)!

SOUTH AFRICA: Huge paper mill fined for emission of toxic sulfur gas!

UNITED KINGDOM: Revealed, British toilet paper made from Swedish and Brazilian trees;

UNITED STATES: Millions being invested into a Louisiana paper mill, to ‘enhance’ paper towel and toilet paper products!

Louisiana saw mill goes up in flames;

Michigan reports the deadly paper mill fungus is spreading!

New York paper mill and union workers agree to a new contract.

Fire burns down lumber mill in Virginia!

Wisconsin reports it is monitoring for deadly paper mill fungus!

URUGUAY: Finland to begin mill operations in the South American country.

U.S. Paper Mill Shenanigans: MORE MYSTERY FIRES, FUNGAL DISEASES, EMPLOYEE DEATHS AND SHUTDOWNS!

International

Saint Elmo strikes Sky Hopper Kermit!: Climate Change 16-22 February 2020

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Incomplete list of links to news articles concerning climate change events during the days of 16 to 22 of the Gregorian month of February 2020.

What are climate zones?

Extreme weather is the cause of most human migration

The irony of being a climate refugee; refugee settlements are even more vulnerable to extreme weather 

Child brides as a way of surviving climate change?

Digital tools help Africa mitigate climate disasters
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Rare weather phenomenon Saint Elmo’s Fire ‘captured’ by hurricane hunter Sky Hopper Kermit in North Atlantic:

15 Brilliant Products Made from Recycled Ocean Plastics
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CHINA: 5.0 quake hits Tibet

5.1 quake hits Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region

GERMANY: Tesla committing tree genocide in name of building gigafactory!

INDIA:  Climate refugees surge amid floods, droughts

KAZAKHSTAN: Promises U.S.$638-million to fight unstoppable climate change

MEXICO: Farmers adapt to climate change by changing crops

RUSSIA:   Pre-historic bird found in Siberia proves climate change is normal: “These remains are of great interest to paleontology since they enable a better understanding of the impact of climate change …”

SOUTH AFRICA: WX alerts issued for severe storms across the country

Three people killed in freak storm

SPAIN: TSUNAMI could rock Andalucia ‘as soon as TOMORROW’ as government prepares emergency plan

UNITED STATES: If President Trump is so anti-climate change why did he authorize Department of Commerce’s NOAA (National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration) to triple  computing capacity, storage space, and interconnect speed of its Weather and Climate Operational Supercomputing System? 

NOAA also reported that despite climate change fear mongers, the U.S. fishing industry is reeling in higher numbers of fish!

 Ice Volcanoes on Great Lakes

Alabama; Fort Morgan residents fed up with illegal dumping, trash piles along road

Florida; Saint Augustine tries out solar powered trash/recycling cans

Tallahassee jacks up curbside recycling rates

Indiana; Town of Lapel wants to jack-up trash/recycling fees by 24%

Maryland; Gaithersburg jacks-up recycling fees 20%

Massachusetts;  City of Greenfield jacks-up trash collection fees

Free recycling is about to end
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Michigan; The state experienced an 8.5% increase in trash piling up in landfills, here’s a list of where it’s coming from and just how much money the state is actually making from collecting trash

Minnesota; State inspectors report that more and more trash, human waste, and even fish that were caught, are being left on the ice by people going ice fishing, it all ends up in the water

Recycling center burns for days, sending toxic smoke into the air

Mississippi; After the Pearl River flood, mountains of trash

New York; City of Troy will attempt to stop illegal trash dumping with security cameras

Ohio; Despite competitive bidding on trash hauling contract, residents of Dayton will still pay more

Pennsylvania; Logistics company wants state-mandated curbside recycling program to stop accepting plastics, basically it costs more to transport plastics than what the plastics are worth!

Are Lehigh Valley towns actually recycling or have local programs quietly ended?

Increase in roadside trash being blamed on trash hauling companies?

Texas; Rice University finds way to turn worthless trash into money making graphene

City of Austin rejects trash collect contract, could refuse (reject) refuse (trash) service to local taxpayers

Washington DC; FEMA warns citizens to prep for catastrophic disasters now

Climate Change, 09-15 February 2020: CAPITALISM KILLS RECYCLING?

Pacific Ring  of Fire, 16-22 February 2020: FIRST DEATHS CAUSED BY FRACKING!

International

Capitalism kills Recycling?: Climate Change 09-15 February 2020

Incomplete list of links to news articles concerning climate change events during the days of 09 to 15 of the Gregorian month of February 2020.

Climate change will expand farming opportunities

Having fewer kids will not save us from climate change
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African countries turn organic waste into electricity

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Trash bag investors expect increase in demand for trash bags, blame India and China

Trash truck investors expect skyrocketing demand for trash trucks due to growing global waste caused more people moving to metro areas.

GREECE:  a ‘protection plan’ for possible volcano eruption in Santorini

ICELAND: Twin bomb cyclones to merge into one of strongest-ever storms hammering Iceland 

IRAN:  4.4 quake

SOUTH AFRICA:  Higher Antarctic Temperatures Bad News for South Africa

SWITZERLAND: Researchers say 3-thousand meter drill hole for thermal energy factory did not create earthquakes

TURKEY:  Bovine survivors of Elazığ earthquake find new home

UNITED KINGDOM:  hurricane-force winds, ‘life-threatening’ floods

UNITED STATES: Official 2020 flood prediction for Mississippi River is bad, just like last year’s prediction

Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas are rated as the worst states for recycling

Major recycling company jacks up fees to taxpayer funded municipalities, will invest in solar power, blames it on fee increases by taxpayer owned landfills and finicky capitalist commodity markets

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At Egg Harbor Township, state militia (National Guard) conducted natural disaster response training that included weapons of mass destruction (chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear) 11FEB2020.
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While public officials complain about the costs and supposed lack of manpower for recycling programs, an 11 years old girl started her own recycling program
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Climate Change 01-08 February 2020: “GLOBAL SYSTEMIC COLLAPSE”

Going Viral 14-15 February 2020:  VACCINE FAIL AS 14-THOUSAND IN THE U.S. DIE, INFECTIONS SKYROCKET!

Business/Economics, Idaho

Fred Meyer expands recycling ops

11 December 2016 / 20:40 UTC-07 Tango 06 (22 Azar 1395/12 Rabi ‘al-Awwal 1438/14 Geng Zi 4714)

In 2010 I wrote about recycling your plastic grocery bags, recently Kroger owned (but Oregon based) retailer Fred Meyer completed a million dollar remodel of their Pocatello, Idaho store, including their recycling bin.

You can see a pic of their old recycling bin in my 2010 posting, their new bin has  apertures for plastic, paper, glass or trash.  

Apparently they’re not aware of the lack of glass recycling in eastern Idaho.

KROGER JOINS OTHER EMPLOYERS IN USING OBAMA CARE AS EXCUSE TO CUT EMPLOYEE HOURS AND BENEFITS

POCATELLO’S OLD FRED MEYER……DID NOT CLOSE DOWN IN THE 1990S

ANSWER TO COUPON THIEVES: KROGER OWNED FRED MEYER OR SMITHS

Technology

Cancer cells highly efficient at recycling

A report published by the Science Translational Medicine says at least 30 types of cancer cells are highly efficient protein recyclers.

The reason why cancerous tumors actually grow fast (contrary to outdated medical theories) is that they have an accelerated rate of recycling, also known as chaperone-mediated autophagy (CMA).

Scientists hope to develop an anticancer drug by finding a chemical that would interfere with the recycling process.

 

Business/Economics, International

Government Incompetence: Plastic Recycling actually destroying environment in China, government shut it down, now as many as 70,000 people in one city are unemployed

So much for saving the environment by recycling plastic bottles.  One city, Wen’an, serves as the plastic recycling center for Beijing.  The problem is that the process of recycling plastic was actually destroying the local environment.

The recycling is done by very small businesses, or even families, and their processes of recycling plastics has destroyed their air and water.  It got so bad the Chinese government shut down the whole city.

To make sure the locals didn’t restart their recycling operations, the Chinese government cut off electricity to most of the city.  Also, Chinese police patrol the roads leading to the city, to stop any vehicles that look like their carrying plastic to be recycled.

You can see more in the Chinadaily video report.

Idaho, Technology

Plastic Grocery Bags, Recycle Them!

Ok, I was watching a local East Idaho TV news program. They ran a national story about getting sick from reusable grocery bags. What got me was in their intro to the story they said that plastic grocery bags just ended up in the landfill. Well not if you recycle them!

When plastic grocery bags first went into use one of the main selling points is that they are recyclable, and therefore will not fill up landfills. The reason they end up in your local dump is because shoppers are not bringing them back to the stores to be recycled.

The Walmart in Chubbuck has bins for dropping off your old plastic grocery bags. So does the Fred Meyer in Pocatello. I believe you can recycle them at your local WINCO. If you’re not sure go ask someone at the Customer Service counter at your favorite store. Just make sure your bags aren’t covered in schmutz.

Why spend money on reusable grocery bags, that they now say may be germ factories, when you can use free plastic grocery bags THAT ARE 100% RECYCLABLE? Please don’t throw them in the trash!

And guess what, it’s not just plastic grocery bags you can recycle. Bread bags, cereal box liner bags & more. Here’s a website for more info on plastic bag recycling: www.plasticbagrecycling.org

Idaho, Technology

No Glass or Styrofoam Recycling in SE Idaho?

Today I was dropping off my recyclables at the dumpsters next to Pocatello City Hall, when a city employee told me I was wasting my time dropping off the glass and styrofoam. He said the glass and styrofoam dumpster went straight to the landfill.

This is not the first time I’ve heard this. Many years ago the folks at the local Pacific Steel & Recycling told me the same thing. Well, I’ve had lots of arguments over the years with residents (and even my kids argued with some of their grade school teachers) who believe that you can recycle glass and styrofoam locally. After the City of Pocatello labeled a small dumpster for glass and styrofoam I thought, maybe I was wrong. Nope, the city employee confirmed that the glass and styrofoam is not recycled. His reason was the same reason Pacific Steel & Recycling gave me years ago; no local south eastern Idaho glass or styrofoam recyclers/manufacturers, and it is too expensive to ship out of the area. It’s just thrown in the local landfill.

I decided to double check this, and sure enough, looking at the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality website (www.deq.idaho.gov), there are no glass or styrofoam recyclers in south eastern Idaho. The nearest Eastern Idaho recycler taking glass is in the City of Driggs, in Teton County, which is about 125 miles northwest of where I live. There are glass recyclers in North Central Idaho, Central Idaho, Western Idaho, Southern Idaho and Northern Idaho, but not in the south eastern part of Eastern Idaho (and only the one in all of Eastern Idaho). Most recycled glass, in the areas of Idaho that do recycle it, end up being used in road projects.

The DEQ website lists Adams County (on the west side of Idaho) as a styrofoam recycler, but, when I checked their web site I couldn’t find any mention of styrofoam recycling (www.co.adams.id.us). It looks like there’s no styrofoam recycling anywhere in Idaho.

So why did the City of Pocatello label a recycling dumpster for glass and styrofoam? The city employee said they got tired of people throwing glass and styrofoam into the dumpsters labeled for cardboard, plastic or aluminum & tin (even though there’s numerous signage asking people not to). So they simply grabbed a small dumpster and labeled it for glass and styrofoam, and haul it to the dump when it’s full.